Cerasella

“Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“Lots of times I feel like I don’t belong to this place.”
― Jeff Buckley

“young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate and frustration - all the emotions that are an ordinary part of their lives and that they can perceive only as as ungovernable and dangerous forces. To master these forces, children turn to fantasy: that imagined world where disturbing emotional situations are solved to their satisfaction.”
― Maurice Sendak